Clothes wringer



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UNITED STATES WILLIAM a scimnnmin, or GLEN RIDGE, NEW JERSEY.

CLOTHES WBINGER.

application filed May 24, 1928. Serial Ho.. 641,055.

This invention relates to clothes wringers and particularly to animproved feeding and safety device adapted to be either embodied in orattached thereto.

' The invention hereinafter described may be considered as improvementsupon devices of the kind described in my Patent No. 1,39%,360, datedOctober 18, 1921. In devices of this kind, the clothes from which wateris to be extracted are fed to the wringing rollers by means ofa belt ofcanvas or other similar tough fabric, the upper reach or stretch ofwhich passes between the wringer rollers. While such a belt performs itsfunction satisfactorily under some conditions, I have found that saidbelt is often open to the objection'that a portion of the waterextracted from the clothes flows'off the edge of said belt and down theframes of the wringer on to the floor,

and is notcaught by the drain-board locatedbeneath the wringing rollersfor the pur-* pose of carrying the extracted water back ,to the tub fromwhich the wet clothes are being taken. Moreover, a canvas belt absorbsand carries through the wringer rollers a certain amount ofwater some ofwhich is afterward absorbed by the clothes before they leave the belt,with the result that the clothes are not'delivered in as dry a conditionas they would be if no belt were used.

The general object of'the present inventlon is to overcome the obections above maintained, and to this end I provide instead of a beltwhich is substantially impervious to water, an openwork apron throughwhich water mayfreely flow and I support this apron'so that it cannotcreep longitudinally of the wringing rollers. In carrying out theinvention, the openwork clothes-carrying apron which I prefer to employis in the form of cords or mesh fabric, which are supported bygroovedrolls, the upper stretch of said apron being which Fig. 1 is aplan view of a wringer ,having my invention embodied thereln;

Fig. 2 is a fragmentary sectional elevation of said wringer,substantially on the line 22 of Fig. 1; Fig. 3 is a side elevation ofsaid wringer; and Fig. 4 is a plan view of an apron made of mesh oropenwork fabric, and rolls-by which said apron is supported. Inall ofthe figures, the drain board usually rovided below the wringer rollersis not illustrated, since it forms no part of the present invention andmay be of any wellknown form. Like parts are referred to throughout thedrawings and this specification by the same reference characters.

Referring to the drawings, the various parts of the wringer are shown assupported 1 by frames 5 and 6 which are connected to one' another by ato cross-frame member ings in the frames 5 and 6; and the upper wringingroller 11 is journaled in bearings 12 which are slidingly arranged inthe frames 5 and 6. Cooperating with'the top of the sliding bearings 12,are springs 14 which are put under compression by screws 15 threadingthrough the top cross-frame '7, and cooperating at their bottom endswith blocks 18, slidingly arranged in the frames '5 and 6and'cooperating with the top ends of the springs 14. The screws 15 areprovided at their upper ends with suitable handles 20 by means of whichthe screws can be turned in either direction and the compression of thesprings 14 varied.

Inthis way, the upper wringing roller 11 is yieldingly forced agalnst.the lower wringing roller 10. The scribed may be of any suitable andwellknown form.

The wringer .frames 5 and 6 are providedon each side with auxiliaryframes which may be, either integral with said wrlnger frames orseparate therefrom. As shown in the drawings, these auxiliary frames areeach in the form of a triangle, one side of.

which cooperates with the vertical side of the wringer frame towhich theauxihary frame is secured by the screws 24. These auxiliary. frames 26,27, 28 and 29, serve to ,7, and lower crossame members 8- and parts sofar desupport rolls which carry an openwork clothes-carrying feed apron,the upper stretch of which passes between the wringing. rollers; andsaid frames also carry guards which are located above the apron on eachside of the wringer. As shown in Figs. 1, 2 and 3, the apron rolls 32and 33 are grooved. The roll 32 is provided at its ends with projectingpins 34 which are journaled in bearings 35, slidingly arranged insockets in the outer ends of the auxiliary frames 26 and 27. Locatedbet-ween the bearings 35 and the inner ends of the sockets are coiledsprings 37 which tend to force the bearings 35 outwardly in the sockets,so as to tend to increase the distance between the rolls 32 and 33 andthereby keep the stretches of the apron tight. The roll 33v may also bejournaledin the auxiliary frames 28 and 29 in the same man'- ner as theroll 32 is journaled in the frames 26 and 27, but inasmuch as it isunnecessary to provide movable bearings for both the rolls 32 and 33,the pins 39 in the ends of the roller 33 are preferably journaled infixed bearings in the outer ends of the frames 28 and 29.

In the form of the invention shown in Figs. 1, 2 and 3 the openworkclothescarrying feed apron is formed of cords 42 which run in thegrooves in the rolls 32 and 33 the upper stretches of said cords beingarranged to pass between the wringing roll ers 10 and 11 and the lowerstretches below the bottom wringing 'roller 10. The rolls 32 and 33 arepreferably so arranged that the upper stretches of the cords 42 will besubstantially straight and horizontal as this makes the feeding of theclothes by the apron more positive than it would be if the upperstretches of the cords on'each side of the wringing rollers wereinclined downwardly.

Fig. 4 shows an openwork clothes-carrying feed apron in'the form of amesh fabric 45, of any suitable kind. When this form of apron isemployed, it is preferably supported by rollers 47 and 46 of the groovedform shown, although ungrooved rollers may be employed if desired. Thisapron 45 of mesh fabric is preferably supported in the same relation tothe wringing rollers as is the apron formed of cords 42, as abovedescribed.

In order to adequately protect the hands of the operator from beingcaught and pinched, on each side of the wringer I provide a pivotedguard which is located above the apron. As shown in Figs. 1, 2' and 3,each of these guards comprises frames in the form of side members 50and- 51, connected together by a cross-frame member 52, secured to theside members 50 and 51, by screws 53 or in any other suitable manner.The side members 50 and 1 are provide all their upper ends withlaterally extending ends of the frame members 50 and 51. It

will be noted that the guard rollers 55 are so mounted in the guardframes that the surfaces of said rollers extend beyond the ends of theside members 50 and 51 of the guard frames, thereby insuring thatclothes, which are bunched up sufiiciently to engage and lift theguards, will cooperate with the surface of the guard rollers 55 and will"not engage with or become caught upon the lower ends of the guard framemembers 50 and 51. It will also be noted that the downward movement ofthe pivoted guards is limited by the engagement of the ends of the crossframe members 52, with the tops of the inclined portions of theauxiliary frames 26, 27, 28 and 29.

From the foregoing description, it will be apparent that with eitherform of openwork clothes-carrying apron the water squeezed out ofclothes by the wringing rollers 10 and 11 will freely flow through theapron and down on to the usual drain board (not shown) which will carrythe water back to the receptacle from which the wet clothes are beingtaken. It will also be apparent that the openwork apron serves to feedthe clothes to and from the wringing rollers 10 and 11; and that becauseof this feeding action and also because of the guards located above theapron, the hands of the operator never get dangerously near the wringingrollers. It will be apparent, therefore, that my invention provides notonly a wringer which may be operated safely'and efficiently, but alsoprovides means for feeding the clothes" to and from the wringing rollerswithout interfering with the usual manner of disposing of the waterwhich is extracted from the clothes by the wringing operation.

-While I have shown certain forms in which myv invention may beembodied, it is to be understood that these may be modified in manyrespects without departing from the spirit of the invention as definedin the appended claim.

What I claim is:

A clothes wringer comprising a frame, cooperating wringing rollersjournaled in said frame, auxiliary frames extending fromeach side ofsaid wringer frame, each auxiliary frame being substantially in the formof a triangle one side of which cooperates with the vertical side of thewringer frame and another side of which is inclined downward- 1ytherefrom, rolls journaled in said auxiliary frame. with their axessubstantially parallel to the axes of said wringing rollers,

a feed apron supported by said rolls and by engagement with the inclinedsides of the arranged with its upper stretch passing belatter, and aguard roller carried by and ext-ween said wringing rollers, and apivoted tending beyond the lower ends of each 10 guard located above theapron on each side guard frame.

of said Wringer comprising guard frames In witness whereof I havehereunto set pivotally mounted in said auxiliary. frames my hand this21st dag of Ma 1923;

and limited in their downward movement A. S HNEDLER.

